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  • Squadron exchange boosts experience

    Swedish JAS-39 Gripen air and ground crews visited the 493rd Fighter Squadron here Sept. 4 through 12 as part of an international squadron exchange program. The squadrons competed against each other in 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 1 and 4 vs. 4 air combat maneuvers and tactical intercept missions. "This training

  • New Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) Civilian External Application Process

    Effective 4 Sept 07, AFPC Employment website no longer posts or accepts resumes for external vacancies. Applicants now need to apply via OPM USAJOBS website. In order to receive consideration, applicants must apply directly for vacancies in which they are interested by using the procedures contained

  • DOD announces change to annual pay increase for some NSPS employees

    In a step towards a more robust pay for performance system, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday to grant one-half of the January 2008 government-wide increase to adjust base salaries for 110,000 National Security Personnel System spiral one employees. NSPS is the Department's pay for

  • 126th ARS supports NATO AWACS operations

    Twenty-eight thousand feet in the skies above Hamburg, Germany and more than 4,200 miles from home, a crew from a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling squadron supports a NATO AWACS. The 126th Air Refueling Squadron from the Wisconsin Air National Guard stationed at Gen. Mitchell International Airport in

  • 23rd AMU claims best weapon loader title

    The weapon load from the three aircraft maintenance units at Spangdahlem went head-to-head in competition fighting for the opportunity to be named the best team on base Sept. 11. After preparing and loading an A1M 9 missile, an MK-82 low drag general purpose bomb and a CBU-87 cluster bomb in 35

  • Airman narrowly avoids head-on-collison

    A day of sightseeing quickly turned into a whirlwind of chaos as an Airman and his family on their way to a resort in Germany witnessed and were almost part of a terrible car crash recently. Tech. Sgt. Vincent Bess and his family had just spent the day at Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles in

  • Airlift Tanker Association Special Mission Award.

    Captain Miller is a flight nurse who accumulated approximately 400 flight hours in 2006, providing aeromedical evacuation and care for 1,345 servicemembers. During the same year, Captain Miller completed a trauma nurse course and was one of three selected from 35 students to upgrade to an

  • Sabers take 11 awards at Berlin Firefighter Combat Challenge

    Six Spangdahlem Air Base firefighters traveled to Berlin to compete in the first Berlin Firefighter Combat Challenge against 65 fellow firefighters from Sweden, England, Poland, Russia, Germany and the United States Sept. 8. The 52nd Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters began preparing for the